11/10/23 colored pencil creek drawing
6:14 PM: we went for a creek walk this afternoon and i made one more in a series of creek drawings. these always serve as inspiration for whatever oil paintings i’m working on.
jazz 20, 35x37” as it looked following today’s adjustments
BELOW: jazz 20 before (left) and after today’s adjustments
2:02 PM: after working for a few hours on jazz 14, i shifted my attention to jazz 20, which i had considered resolved. but the more i gazed at it , tacked to my east studio wall, the more i felt that the paddlers needed to POP more. so i started working back into it. so far, i’ve only made adjustments to the lower paddler with the red hair, and laready i’m seeing an improvement. i’ll continue tomorrow morning, as well as deciding what if anything needs to be done to jazz 14. it’s so valuable to let time pass and return to paintings that, although they’re singing, some of the bass notes are weak or missing!
jazz 14 as it looked at noon today
12:23 PM: the female figure in the middle-left was dominating, so i worked into it as well as adding a few geometric shapes in pink & green and making a few more changes to the composition. i don’t think it’s there yet (where?) so i’ll likely do some more once i finish posting this.
BELOW: yesterday’s version on the LEFT
what i was looking at when i made the drawing